Mama from Sierra Leone, 17 years old

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I had one friend Fanta, she's in Guinea. I'm already thinking about how when I came from the war I was living near her, but she don't know me, she don't know where I came from but she told me that I'm gonna be her friend and I was her friend and she said anything you want you can tell me and I will give it to you. She was the first friend I had when I went to Guinea and what it did, well, it helped me like sometimes if my mother's not home or didn't cook nothing, I could go to her, me and my sister would go there and she could give us food, even if we don't ask her, she give us food. She already helped us and I -already I'm thinking about her.

And first time when I come here, when I come to the United States, I call her, but she's not there. She went different way, so when I call, she's not there, so if I want to send a letter, I don't have anyone to send letters to. Sometimes I say I feel bad like when I go to school and the teacher shouts at me, I feel bad about those stuff that happened to me --it make me mad.